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Timing is everything in comedy. When a neighborhood-watch volunteer was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martinearlier this year — in real life, that is — 20th Century Fox changed the title of its forthcoming comedy from "Neighborhood Watch" to"The Watch"so as to disassociate. I saw the film, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade, who is the reason it's not entirely lame, with an audience. It's unlikely many had Trayvon Martin on their minds as they watched these four blasting aliens and trading a stunning number of jokes relating to testicles of various species. (Jared Stern's original draft...

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